Friendship Quotes

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.